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System Properties Comparison InterSystems IRIS vs. KairosDB vs. MaxDB vs. mSQL vs. NSDb

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NameInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.05
Rank#83  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score2.32
Rank#112  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irisgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbmaxdb.sap.comhughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlnsdb.io
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clskairosdb.github.iomaxdb.sap.com/­documentationnsdb.io/­Architecture
DeveloperInterSystemsSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997Hughes Technologies
Initial release20182013198419942017
Current release2023.3, June 20231.2.2, November 20187.9.10.12, February 20244.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoLimited community edition freecommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++CJava, Scala
Server operating systemsAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemedepending on used data modelschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, string
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesnono
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on CassandranonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesUsing Apache Lucene
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlyessimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
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InterSystems IRISKairosDBMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-DmSQL infoMini SQLNSDb
Specific characteristicsInterSystems IRIS is a complete cloud-first data platform which includes a multi-model...
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